Promoting good governance in Uzbekistan

Context

Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been leading a comprehensive reform agenda since his inauguration in 2016. The government's vision for public administration reform encompasses a wide range of objectives, including improving service delivery in various sectors, reducing corruption in the public sector, reforming the civil service and restructuring the government's functions. So far, the results have been limited due to a lack of capacity both on the part of government institutions and civil society, including the media. Policy making and implementation are hampered by inadequate data, insufficient skills of public servants and a severe lack of coordination between government institutions.

Objective

Uzbekistan’s public administration is empowered to carry out reforms in line with the principles of good governance.

Approach

The project helps to improve the capacity of the Uzbek administration through inter-ministerial consultation mechanisms, by developing training curricula and by implementing trainings for public servants. Furthermore, the project supports the facilitation of citizen dialogue and change projects in pilot regions, as well as mainstreaming anti-corruption and gender equality.

By promoting closer cooperation between the Government counterparts, the citizens, civil society, academia, private sector, think tanks, international development partners and other relevant actors involved, the project:

• supports the establishment of consultation mechanisms that are supportive of the necessary reforms in public administration,
• supports the modernisation of the public administration by providing civil servants with basic and further training aligned with the principles of good governance,
• promotes local government reform in two pilot regions in line with the principles of good governance and
• supports the mainstreaming of ‘anti-corruption’ and ‘integrity’ as quality criteria in public administration reform.

Last update: July 2023